Such were the heroic words gasped out by a desperately wounded Italian
Colonel during the Italo-Turkish War of 1911-12. Death was, however,
not quite ready to snatch away Armando Diaz, then 51, and quite unknown
outside the Army. By a miracle he recovered from his battle wounds and
lived to die, last week, in bed, of bronchial pneumonia, at 66. The 15
years of grace thus granted by Death had enabled Colonel...